A dropped call to 911 during emergency conditions? Bad. Ten thousand of them? Very bad. Verizon did just this during a recent Blizzard in Maryland, and the FCC is ticked—asking for an internal investigation. [Bloomberg via Engadget] »2/22/11 8:52am 2/22/11 8:52am

We were talking today in Campfire—Giz's virtual office—about Apple's newly uncovered patent on a system that warns you about bad quality or dropping cellular or Wi-Fi connections "ahead of time." Jason thought it could be useful to know that, so you could just avoid making the call. I thought that it wouldn't be… »5/29/08 3:57pm 5/29/08 3:57pm

Experiencing dropped calls while walking around town is annoying enough, but having calls cut out while I'm walking around my 2-by-3 foot Manhattan apartment is a whole 'nother matter entirely. If this ARC Freedom Wireless Cell Phone Antenna actually works as advertised, I won't have to worry about it again. It… »1/04/07 10:35am 1/04/07 10:35am